Biology:Wreckfish
| Wreckfish | |
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| Atlantic wreckfish, Polyprion americanus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Superfamily: | Percoidea |
| Family: | Polyprionidae Bleeker, 1874[1] |
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The wreckfish are a family, Polyprionidae in the suborder Percoidei of the order Perciformes.[2]
They are deep-water marine fish and can be found on the ocean bottom, where they inhabit caves and shipwrecks (thus their common name).[3] Their scientific name is from Greek poly meaning "many" and prion meaning "saw", a reference to their prominent spiny fins.[4]
Atlantic wreckfish (Polyprion americanus) are a long-lived commercial species in the Mediterranean, the south-eastern Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean.[5]
Genera
There are six species in two genera:[2][6][7][8]
- Genus Polyprion Oken, 1817
- Polyprion americanus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
- Polyprion oxygeneios (Schneider & Forster, 1801)
- Genus Stereolepis Ayres, 1859
- Stereolepis gigas Ayres, 1859
- Stereolepis doederleini Lindberg & Krasyukova, 1969
The Asian sea basses of the genus Lateolabrax have been classified in the Polyprionidae, Moronidae or in its own monogeneric family Lateobracidae[2][8] within the order Acropomatiformes.[9]
References
- ↑ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer; Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa 3882 (2): 001–230. https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3882.1.1/10480.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 430–467. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/.
- ↑ "Wreckfish". British Sea Fishing. https://britishseafishing.co.uk/wreckfish/.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Polyprion americanus" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
- ↑ Sedberry, George R. (1999). "Wreckfish Polyprion americanus in the North Atlantic: fisheries, biology, and management of a widely distributed and long-lived fish". American Fisheries Society Symposium 23: 27–50. http://homepages.gac.edu/~jcarlin/downloads/LifeSlowLane.pdf. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2019). "Polyprionidae" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
- ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Genera in the family Polyprionidae". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?tbl=genus&family=Polyprionidae.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Genera in the family Lateolabricidae". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?tbl=genus&family=Lateolabricidae.
- ↑ "GENERA/SPECIES BY FAMILY/SUBFAMILY IN Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes". 2020. https://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/SpeciesByFamily.asp.
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